The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-17
Religious Notes.

Our distinctions DO not lie in the places which
we occupy. but in the grace and dignity with
which we fill them.
4, On sun.dal which stands upon the pier at
Brighton is inscribed this hopeful line: 1T is
always morning somewhere in the world"
o grant me, heaven, middle state
Neither too humble too great.
More than enough for Natures ends,
David Mallet.
Louisa M. Alcott: quiet life often makes
itself felt in better ways than that the world
sees and applauds; and some of the nobest are
never known till the end, leaving void in many
hearts.
A Spanish scholar at Madrid. Senior Carulla,
who has been for many years at work on q
rhymed version eff the Holy Scriptures, has lust
completed his task. The entire work. it is said,
contains 260, 900 verses
If you can live gently, patiently. unmurmur-
ingly amid all your frsrs and irritations. day
after day, that is heroism. That is your task.
You are TO resolve to do it No one, not even
God, will do it for you.
Homes are like harps, Of which one is finely
carved and bright with gliding. but ill-tuned.
and jarring the air with its discords, while
another is old. and plain, and worn bat from its
shords float strains that are feast of music.
There was something pathetic in the appeal
which a little boy made to his father. when he
cried, Il often do wrong, know and then You
scold me. and | deserve it, but. father, some
times do my best to do right! Won't you let
Dexter ME Gazette: A preacher who used to
hold forth in Sangervlle was won't to be rather
wandering in his remarks One day he asked a
lady what his hearers thought of his sermons.
well. if you must know" said she, ''they say
that if the text had the smallpox the sermon was
in no danger Of eatchingit it,"
On May 81 an alumni professoro Of the evidences
OF revealed religion for the Episcopal General
Theological Seminary OF New York will be elect
ed Among the candidates are Bishop Lttlejohn,
nrdV Of EAl, hin Ill,
Father" Hail. of Boston, and the Rev. Dr.
John Henry Hopkins. DR.. Hopkins will prob
ably be elected.
The Rev. Dr. Lorimer. of the First Baptist
Church, Chicago, created something of sensa.
ton at a recent meeting of the evaneelists and
temperance workers by announcing that he be-
lieved himself to be the bestnatured man in the
world. having worked whole week with re-
vivalist without having row. DR.. Lorimer was
formerly an actor.
ne has genius or not Work he must whatever
he is. but quietly and steadily; and the natural
and enforced results of such work will always
be the things that God meant him to do, and
VIII be his best. If ne be great man. they will
be great things; but always, if thus peacefully
done, good and right.
AS long as we have reasonable wants we get
on comfortably; but it is the struggle after lux
uries that fills society with distress. and popu-
lates prisons, and sends hundreds Of people
stark mad. Dissatisfied with plain house. and
ordinary apparel, and respectable SURROUNDINGS
they plunge their head into enterprises and spec
uations from which they have to sneak out in
disgrace.
1t is not the Sunday -scheol which keeps
children and young people from attending
church. The fault is at home. where there IS
often a lack of decision on the subject of church
attendance. There are some people who rise on
Sunday morning too late to get both themselves
and their children ready for church. Parents
who are in earnest about it will have little
trouble in enforcing the presence of their chill
oren at public worship.
Arrangements were some time since made to
Improve the streets OF the Holy City. 1t now
appears that Jerusalem has at last yielded to the
progressive tendencies OF the age. Tho uneven
and even dangerous condition of its roadwavs,
formed OF rough blocks of stone is more.
Excellent paving has been laid down in the
principal streets. and several of the principal
approaches, especially those from Bethlehem
and Hebron have been widened.
The bishop of Liverpool is at once liberal and
evangelical. He Is anxious among other things
to have a cathedral for the diocese Among
other contributions toward the cathedral fund
he received $4,000 from a local brewer For
ms Ge has been taken to task by the temper
Ance people and censured. The bishop replies
that some OF the mobiles. men he has ever known
were brewers. and he thinks it hard that brewers
should not be allowed 10 give money for relic-
ious purpose if they 80 desired.
Mr.. Murray, a onearmed saw-miller. losing
his occupation, became colporteur of the Ma
tional Bible Society of Scotland. After serv-
ice OF some years in his native land. studying all
NE while the various systems of printing for the
blind. be was transferred to Pekiug China To
read an ordinary Chinese book, one must learn
some four thousand characters: to read, say
Jack. tho Giant-killer,s one must master L 200
characters Mr.. Murray reduced the sounds of
Chinese speech to 420. and devised a system of
dotsto reoresen. them. He next took an orphan
beggar boy. blind from his birth. washed clothed
ana HOUSED him, and taught HIM to read by
means of he dots. Others were taken in the
same way and taught The Scriptures were
printed in this style; ana now many blind men
mas be seen reading tAe Bible on the street
corners Of Picking. to the astonishment of their
5eliow-countrymen.